Lean manufacturing and an implementation at sector of tire

The root cause of problems that were encountered today is mass production. Machinery and equipments are designed to produce high volumes in mass production. That is why it is not available for variation of customer demands. Contrary to mass production, lean manufacturing has great flexibility to meet the customers? needs, especially reflecting customer voice on the process and describing its value as what the customer deserve. This study shows that obtained improvements through applied lean manufacturing techniques to an accepted bottleneck tire process in current manufacturing system and studies to perform the improvements. Aim of the study is to give definitions of lean manufacturing and it?s techniques after to show that need to be followed lean manufacturing steps to achieve lean manufacturing implementation and lean manufacturing techniques that must be used at a process which was chosen in tire manufacturing.In first three section of this study, lean history, lean concepts and definitions, lean thinking, lean manufacturing techniques were defined and explained in terms of different aspects. In the fourth section which includes the application study, the application of all the theoretical knowledges that are explaned in the previous sections in a Tire Manufacturing Plant. And last section of the study shows conclusion of lean implementation. Total lead time was decreased from 14,27 days 0,0363 hours to 2,26 days 0,0357 hours for the process was observed during this study by implementing of lean manufacturing techniques.Key Words: Lean, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Thinking, Kanban, SMED, 5S, Total Productive Maintenance, Kaizen, Poka-Yoke